We Need Higher Quality Note-Taking Applications

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I have created my own note-taking tool after experimenting with all of the different note-taking apps for many years.

It's a shell script.

If interested: https://github.com/scottashipp/noted/

A very personal approach. Aren't you worried about creating inconsistency? I would be worried about creating notes that would then have to be rewritten to conform to the type of manipulation the program does.

I personally journal using Org-roam Dailies. Very simple, it's all just plain Org.

> Aren't you worried about creating inconsistency? I would be worried about creating notes that would then have to be rewritten to conform to the type of manipulation the program does.

"Noted" is purposefully agnostic to the underlying tools used, and outputs Markdown which is a standard that affords a wide range of available tooling and also can be converted to many other formats with widely-available open-source tools like pandoc.

I share more about the philosophy behind it in a four-part series here:

https://dev.to/scottshipp/an-amazing-note-taking-system-with...

which particular problem statement in note taking are you referring to? I think its important to exactly pin point this. Recently came across this - https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam .. Had good explanation how Roam which became a massive hit sometime back - this particular has stopped using (assuming here lots of users are going through this)

This post specifically talks about the performance ramifications of tooling choices the developers used to create the said note-taking applications mentioned.

QT and Gtk are just awful compared to Electron. I did a "shoot-out" of cross platform GUIs a while back and none of them are really better than Electron.

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